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Subject: Irish Quaker Immigrants to PA info #18
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 08:01:13 EDT

Info from ancestry.com website - referenced below

Immigration of Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania

Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County, Delaware. Established in 1686.

Miriam Andrews, of the Borough of Wilmington, widow of William Andrews, in her
will, dated 6 Mo. 20, 1750, probated Sept. 5, 1750 (G. I, p. 419), mentions
her cosin Jane Hartley wife of Thomas Heartly, her sons Ezekiel and John
Andrews and daughters, Hannah West and Ruth Andrews, the latter to be placed
as an apprentice with Elinor Robinson.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
THE BEGINNINGS OF QUAKERISM IN IRELAND
page 28

By 1668, the number of Friends had so greatly increased that it became
necessary to adopt some form of church government, and William Edmundson, as
one of the chief instruments in gathering and preserving the Society in
Ireland, was a prime mover in the work of carrying out George Fox's scheme of
organization in Ireland. Provincial meetings were established to be held once
in six weeks, the chief business being to take care of the poor, the
fatherless and the widows; to see that marriages were properly solemnized; and
to watch over the moral conduct of the members. In the following year George
Fox himself came over, and he and William Edmundson traveled all over [p.28]
the Island, establishing national half-year meetings and monthly meetings.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
WAYS AND MEANS OF MIGRATION
page 93

The voyage was a long and trying one, especially so when attended by rough
weather. The length of the passage varied all the way from six weeks to three
months. Vessels were often driven far out of the course by contrary winds and
carried as far south as the West Indies. Dangerous diseases, such as small-
pox, were of frequent occurrence, and many passengers died at sea. During the
French Wars, vessels were often attacked and the passengers imprisoned or
subjected to loss of property and to harsh treatment. As an instance of this,
may be cited the case of [p.93] Samuel Massey and family who sailed from Cork
in 1710, intending for Philadelphia, but the vessel was seized by the French
and they were carried off to the Island of Antigua in the West Indies.1
Finally, after much suffering and hardship, they reached Philadelphia, but so
impoverished that they were unable to pay for their passage from Antigua, and
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting had to assist them to the extent of thirty
pounds. The French had taken even their certificate of removal, and Massey had
to request the meeting in Cork to send a duplicate certificate.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Established in 1682.
page 289

[p.289] ROBERT PENROSE, of Ballykenny, County Wicklow, wife Mary, two
daughters, Margaret and Ann Penrose, and a single son, Christopher Penrose,
who was brought up a Friend and bound an apprentice to a Friend in Dublin.
(Christopher's certificate is dated 3 Mo. 21, 1717, from Two Weeks Meeting at
Dublin. Original on file.) Received 8 Mo. 25, 1717.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Established in 1682.

In 1673, in County Wicklow, Robert Penrose because for Conscience sake he
could not take an Oath to be a Constable, was committed to Prison and
detained ten weeks.William Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 218.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Established in 1682.

ABEL CHAMBERLAIN, unmarried, served his apprenticeship in this city, dated 11
Mo. 26, 1740, from Three Weeks Mtg. in Cork, Ireland. Original on file.
Received 3 Mo. 22, 1741.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
In Bucks County. Established in 1734, from Buckingham.

JAMES DEAN, Jr., from the Six Weeks Meeting at Antrim in Ireland, was received
9 Mo. 2, 1742-3.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Established in 1682.

The Records of Old Swedes Church, Wilmington Del. (Printed by Hist. Soc. of
Pa., 1890), page 260, state that in 1720 The Quakers', Alphonsi Kirk and wife
Abigail's son Jonathan, 21 years old, [was] baptised in St. James' Church,
July 10th. Jonathan Kirk and Mary Anderson were married by license, Aug. 16,
1720 (Ibid., 258). Nov. 19, 1721, James Kirk, three weeks old, son of Jonathan
and Mary (p. 266), and on Jan. 26, 1723, Elizabeth Kirk, born Jan. 11, 1723,
daughter of above, were baptized (p. 279).
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
Established in 1676.

JOSEPH WHITE, son of Samuel and ? White, born 1 Mo. 20, 1651-2, in a town
called Sulyrane, in North Hampshire, England. He went from England to Ireland
in 1672, taking ship 7 Mo. 25. Afterwards he married Elizabeth Church, who
came from Dolbay of the Woulds in Lestershire in England to Ireland. They
belong to New Garden Mtg., their dwelling place and took Ship at Dublin in
Ireland for West Jersey in Amerika who After eight weeks, two days Arrived to
Elsinburgh, West Jersey, 9 Mo. 17, 1681, together with servants as followeth.
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Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania
THE MARSH FAMILY

ANNO 1674. Isabel Lancaster, Servant to John Marsh, of the County of Armagh,
was sued in the Primate's Temporal Court for carrying Home her Master's Corn,
under Pretence of its being Tithe, though it was neither markt nor set forth
as such. An Execution was obtained against her, on which she was imprisoned in
the Bayliff's House, and after two Weeks removed thence to another Bayliff's,
where she was detained six months.

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